PORT OF WANGANUI.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20038, 20 September 1930, Page 16

PORT OF WANGANUI.

ATTITUDE OF SHIPPING COMPANIES. (rssss usocxatioji nuEoaix.) . NSW PLYMOUTH, September 19 Mr James Hlnc, who for some months . turn been Acting-Chairman of the Dairy Beard, take! exception ■to the statesent reported by the Press Association to have hqen made by the Minister for Agriculture, in reply to a question from Mr J. T. Hogan regarding a shipping company's refusal to load certain dairy produce on 'the Tonic at Wanganui. The' report .attribute* to the chairman of til# Board the statement that it was not the Board that was responsible, but tbe shipping company which insisted on the conditions In the contract, one of wfeieh was that Wanganui should not be ft port of loading. Mr Hine aays that the Wanganni Harbour Board, 'which also controls the, eoH stores there, has been giving spec-, lal infdncements in order to divert certain dairy factories' produce to Wanganui, sad as, at the-same time, the Board increased ships' dues, the shipping companies naturally concluded they weta not only being forced to contribute indireetlT to the cost of this diversion, bnt were also in some cases, incurring payments for coastal freight, which would hare been avoided had the produce been loaded at Welington. They therefore, insisted thnt under the new contract produce would only be accepted for shipment at Wanganui from those factories which had been shipping from there prior to* November Ist, 1925. or product from da'rv factories erected in the vicinity of Wanganui since that date.